Common Quotes · Page 41

It is a tragedy that we live in a world where physical courage is so common, and moral courage is so rare.

— Claude Monet

Patria est communis omnium parens. Our country is the common parent of all.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

It is as common for tastes to change as it is uncommon for traits of character.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

The independence and liberty you possess are the work of joint efforts and common dangers, sufferings, and successes.

— George Washington

Common sense, however it tries, cannot avoid being surprised from time to time.

— Bertrand Russell

The technology in making games and in making anime is really similar. There are common concepts.

— Satoshi Tajiri

Of all the hokum with which this country [America] is riddled, the most odd is the common notion that it is free…

— W. Somerset Maugham

It is a common law of nature, which no time will ever change, that superiors shall rule their inferiors.

— Dionysius of Halicarnassus

I listen to a variety of music. The only common point is strong lyrics; I'm more obsessed with lyrics than music. I…

— Lou Doillon

My soul had found All happiness in its own cause or ground. Godhead on Godhead in sexual spasm begot Godhead. Some shadow…

— William Butler Yeats

...it's as empty as a merchant's soul. Sorry, Kheldar, it's just an old expression." "That's all right, Beldin," Silk forgave him grandly.…

— David Eddings

I consider myself a reasonable man. As such, I tend to expect others to behave with a modicum of reason and common…

— Peter Horton

If an historian be an unbeliever in all heroism, if he be a man who brings every thing down to the level…

— Matthew Arnold

I have a song called 'Decisions' that features Jamie Foxx, Mary J. Blige, John Legend and Common. It's about people who have…

— Busta Rhymes

Serve God by doing common actions in a heavenly spirit, and then, if your daily calling only leaves you cracks and crevices…

— Charles Spurgeon

They taught me that all life forms are important to each other in our common quest for happiness and survival. That there…

— Lawrence Anthony

Economists use the word consume to mean "utilize economic goods," but the Shorter Oxford Dictionary's definition is more appropriate to ecologists: "To…

— Alan Thein Durning

There are two 'Snow White' movies coming out for the same reason that you remember back in the day there was 'Armageddon'…

— Armie Hammer

Sport is where an entire life can be compressed into a few hours, where the emotions of a lifetime can be felt…

— George A. Sheehan

We are going to have to find ways of organizing ourselves cooperatively,sanely, scientifically, harmonically and in regenerative spontaneity with the rest of…

— R. Buckminster Fuller

I had great parents, and they trained me well and instilled great values in me. They also taught me common sense about…

— Ken Osmond

Let us not be too prodigal when we are young, nor too parsimonious when we are old. Otherwise we shall fall into…

— Charles Caleb Colton

I have often thought that there has rarely passed a life of which a judicious and faithful narrative would not be useful;…

— Samuel Johnson

The right to the city is far more than the individual liberty to access urban resources: it is a right to change…

— David Harvey

In all the writers I admire, the common detonator is their courage to walk naked.

— Richard Flanagan

That’s when she’d learned that male egos and fruit had a lot in common: Both bruised easily.

— Jana Oliver

It may be argued that the past is a country from which we have all emigrated, that its loss is part of…

— Salman Rushdie

Let us beware of common folk, of common sense, of sentiment, of inspiration, and of the obvious.

— Charles Baudelaire

Tranvestism is far more common among men, I noted, because it originates in the primary relation of mother and son.

— Camille Paglia

My opinion was that if we had a common enemy we should get together commonly.

— Anonymous

Coercion by government, the main fear of our founding fathers, is now its most common attribute.

— Philip K. Howard

The love which moves the world, according to common Christian belief, is God's love and the love of God.

— Mortimer Adler

We perceive that the schemers return again and again to common sense and labor. Such is the evidence of history.

— Henry David Thoreau

The decline of education in North America and I suppose in Western Europe makes it harder to have a common body of…

— Susan Sontag

God grants us an uncommon life to the degree we surrender our common one.

— Max Lucado

When men organize themselves into groups, and they make rules based on common or self-interest, it's always tangled and political.

— Andrew Dominik

People working together in a strong community with a shared goal and a common purpose can make the impossible possible.

— Tom Vilsack

It's a very common belief [among Mormons] that the Constitution will hang by a thread and the Church will save it.

— Jan Shipps

He [Donald Trump] hasn't shifted on a lot of the things that he had in common with his Republican opponents.

— Michelle Goldberg

Advocacy groups, politicians, and bureaucrats use the government to advance their private good instead of the common good.

— Joel Miller